Improvement in fagots or piles for manufacturing railroad-rails



PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM HAYWARD AND JOHN LEES, OF DANVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

. IMPROVEMENT IN FAGOTS OR PILES FOR MANUFACTURING RAILROAD-RAILS.

Specification forming part o f Letters Patent No. 79,904. dated .Iuly 14, 1868..

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM HAYWARD and J oHN LEES, of Danville, in the county of Montour and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Manufacturing Rails; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invent-ion relates to the manufacture of rails for railroads of iron or steel, or iron and steel combined; and it consists in forming what is known as a pile7 for rolling in the manner hereinafter described.

In the drawings Figure 1 represents alongitudinal section of the pile; and Fig. 2 is an end View of the same, showing the shape of the parts which form the pile.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In rolling out railroad-rails a pile is formed of two or more separate pieces of iron or steel, (or iron and steel combined, if the rail is to have a steel wearing-surface,) and the same is subjected to a high temperature in the furnace and passed through the rollers and formed into rails of any required shape, the parts being firmly Welded together by the rolling-process. Dii'erent qualities of iron are combined in this manner, or iron and-steel, so that a superior quality of iron or steel may form the face or wearing-surface of the rail, while the less important partis formed of an inferior quality of metal.

In carrying out our invention we form the pile as seen in Fig. 2.

A, B, and C are three differently-shaped bars of iron, which are rolled to iit together, Y

substantially as seen.

Byplacing the bars together, as seen in the drawings, the pile may be made as high as may be desired, while each separate piece will be held to its place by the pieces with which v it is combined.

The pieces or bars A may be dispensed with, and only the pieces or bars B and C be retained, if desired. 

